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Wednesday, June 7, 2017

The Walking Dead's spin-off Fear the Walking Dead returned for what looks like another year of disappointment in the making, with a 1.18/1.04 for its two-hour season premiere. Both those hours were well less than half of the the first two hours of last season (3.08/2.53, which premiered in April 2016). And it was even a significant notch below the mid-1's it was usually getting when we last saw it in early fall 2016. Of course, it should be noted that it is still at over double the rating of everything else on this table...

Making a much healthier return was TNT's Animal Kingdom (0.44), which was just a hundredth below the year-ago series premiere in its Tuesday return. It was a show that held up very well post-premiere during season one, ending the year on a 0.48.

Cablemetrics took the month of May off but the biggest story in that mostly quiet month for cable TV was the revival of Twin Peaks on Showtime, which has been a big disappointment at least in Live+SD numbers. After managing just a 0.15 for its two-hour premiere on May 21, it plummeted to an off-the-map 0.04 for two more hours over Memorial weekend, then roared back to a 0.08 last week. Judging from the way Showtime has scheduled this thing, perhaps they knew it was gonna be a niche effort; it had the aforementioned double-pump during the holiday weekend, and will move to 8:00 down the line to give the better slot to Ray Donovan. But it's hard to imagine this is what they were looking for.

The last episode led into the micro-rated premiere of comedy I'm Dying Up Here (0.03). Unless it can work its way up to being a consistent top 150 show, we will probably not be tracking it here.

Freeform featured the returns of dramas Shadowhunters (0.26) and Stitchers (0.18) on Monday. Shadowhunters opened the summer half of its second season and went a bit below its winter average. Stitchers was actually up a hundredth from its second season premiere, when the show aired on Tuesday at 10:00.

FULL TABLE:

Name

Net

Ep

A18-49

Last

Seas

Avg

y2y

Proj

ProjPlus

Skew

Male

Fear the Walking Dead

AMC

2

1.11

-6%

3

1.11

-60%

0.73

59

48%

53%

Better Call Saul

AMC

8

0.52

-22%

3

0.60

-34%

0.59

49

47%

65%

American Dad!

TBS

13

0.48

-13%

13

0.54

-3%

0.53

43

68%

59%

Pretty Little Liars

FREE

16

0.43

+5%

7

0.46

-39%

0.42

35

61%

23%

Animal Kingdom

TNT

1

0.44

2

0.44

-2%

0.42

34

47%

47%

Silicon Valley

HBO

7

0.44

+38%

4

0.41

-57%

0.41

34

64%

67%

Talking Dead: Fear

AMC

1

0.36

2

0.36

-66%

0.20

17

47%

54%

The Leftovers

HBO

8

0.43

+43%

3

0.35

+14%

0.38

31

51%

56%

Fargo

FX

7

0.27

+13%

3

0.31

-13%

0.32

26

35%

63%

Angie Tribeca

TBS

9

0.30

+7%

2

0.28

+12%

0.28

23

63%

60%

American Gods

STAR

6

0.21

-19%

1

0.28

0.26

21

49%

52%

Shadowhunters

FREE

11

0.26

-7%

2

0.28

-36%

0.26

22

50%

34%

Nashville

CMT

13

0.21

-5%

5

0.22

-78%

0.20

17

30%

38%

Doctor Who

BBC-

8

0.21

+40%

10

0.21

-47%

0.19

16

42%

54%

The Americans

FX

13

0.20

+33%

5

0.19

-27%

0.19

15

31%

54%

Stitchers

FREE

1

0.18

3

0.18

+6%

0.16

13

48%

The Son

AMC

8

0.12

-14%

1

0.16

0.15

13

14%

49%

Famous in Love

FREE

7

0.11

-8%

1

0.14

0.13

11

53%

14%

Twin Peaks

SHOW

3

0.08

+100%

1

0.09

0.07

6

35%

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